The US Telecommunications Industry Association, which represents vendors and suppliers, has appointed five new members to its board of directors: Bryan Glutting, CEO of ACS Solutions; Vish Nandlall, Ericsson North America’s head of strategy, marketing and CTO; Stratton Nicolaides, CEO and chairman of Numerex; Geoff Roman, senior VP and CTO of Motorola Mobility; and Steve Sifferman, COO of Tarana Wireless.
The TM Forum has appointed six new board members: David Burton, CTO of Nato; Che Haiping, CTO of Huawei Software; Michael Matthews, head of strategy and business development at Nokia Siemens Networks; Karl Penaluma, president of BT’s 21st century transformation programme; Don Rae, senior VP at Axiata; and Dean Walters, CIO and MD at UPC Liberty Global.
Francesco Profumo has resigned as a director of Telecom Italia because it is incompatible with new position as minister for education, university and research in the new Italian government, led by Mario Monti as prime minister. His replacement on the board is Massimo Egidi, professor of economics at Luiss University in Rome and rector of the university.
Stephanie Liston, former board member of UK regulator Ofcom and current member of the advisory board for Orga Systems, has become a senior counsel at law firm Charles Russell. Liston is a former senior attorney at MCI and was a board member at the European Competitive Telecoms Association.
Emma Brackett, former director of content at AT&T’s U-verse, is now VP of WorldTV at GlobeCast Americas.
Stuart McDonald is the new CIO of Telstra’s Hong Kong mobile operation CSL. He was head of programme delivery at Cathay Pacific Airways.
Chipmaker ST-Ericsson has promoted COO Didier Lamouche to be president and CEO, replacing Gilles Delfassy. Lamouche reports to Hans Vestberg who is chairman of ST-Ericsson and CEO of Ericsson, which owns the joint venture with STMicroelectronics. Delfassy will be senior adviser during a transition period.
Darryl Edwards, ex CEO of Aircom International, is new chairman of the board of directors of MACH. He is also a non-executive director of Exfo. Earlier in his career he spent 17 years at Nortel, where he was president of global sales to carrier and wireless networks and president of Europe, Middle East and Africa.
The International Data Centre Group, an alliance of data centre operators, has appointed Erikas Napjus as a senior advisor. He founded and built Google’s global infrastructure organisation and was also an early developer of internet technologies at Carnegie Mellon University in the US.
The newly formed UK-based Data Centre Alliance has appointed Steven Norris, a former UK member of parliament and government minister, as its first president.
Capgemini has promoted Dee Burger to be telecom, media and entertainment practice sector lead, and appointed Jean-Marc Steffann, ex France Telecom, to be VP and deputy lead of its global telecom, media and entertainment practice.
Yaakov Stein, former chief scientist at RAD Data Communications, is now CTO.